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HISTORY

It’s an Italian city of 2,796,102 inhabitants, capital of the province of Rome, Lazio region and Italy.

It is the largest city in Italy and the fourth most populous city in the European Union and is known as the Eternal City.

It is the only city in the world that has inside a foreign state, the Vatican City.






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THE COLISEUM

Symbol of the eternity of Rome, the colosseum, as it was known in classical times.

Its architecture has allowed almost perfect survive 2.000 years despite fires, earthquakes and systematic looting that has suffered throughout history.

The world´s largest amphitheater rising in the heart of ancient Rome.

THE PANTHEON OF AGRIPPAIt is a circular temple built in Rome in the early Roman Empire,

dedicated to all the gods (The word Pantheon means temple of all the gods). The city is know as La Rotonda, hence the name of the place in which it is “Angelic and not human design”. Michelangelo.






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TREVI FOUNTAINThe Trevi Fountain is the

largest, most ambitious and most famous Baroque monumental fountains in Rome (Italy).

According to the current administrative division of the center of Rome, is located in the rione of Trevi.

A traditional legend holds that visitors throw a coin into the fountain ensures your return to Rome.

Another version of this legend is that it brings luck throw three coins with the right hand over the left ghoulder to the source.






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ROMAN FORUM AND PALATINE

Roman Forum:

It´s where life unfolded citizen in ancient Rome: politics, justice, commerce, social life and worship of the gods. Sanctuary of ancient Rome.

The Palatine:

There are the ruins of the imperial residence, begun by Augustus dramatically enlarged by his successors.

CASTLE SANTÁNGELOThe building was initially conceived as Mausoleum of Emperor

Hadrian (117-138). Impregnable fortress where you could withstand the siege for months, no invader could proclaim himself master of Rome until he had rendered SantÁngelo. Has also served as a palace, where the popes spent long periods in troubled times. He later served as a prison, when it passed into the hands of the italian state, and since 1925 houses the Museo Nazionale del Castel SantÁngelo.






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THE VITTORIANOIt´s a huge memorial to the

city of Rome, Italy, held in honor of the first king of united Italy, Victor Emmanuel II.

It was designed by Giuseppe Sacconi in 1895. The monument is built of white marble quarries extracted from Botticino.

You have several sources and sculpture of Victor Emmanuel and two statues of the goddess Victoria riding chariots.

At the base of the monument is the museum of the unification of Italy.






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PLAZA OF SPAIN

The Square of Spain is one of the magical places of Rome, made in the eighteenth century at the expense of the crown of France, is a great stage that makes it one of the busiest places in the city and encouraged.

The name of the square is due to Spain´s embassy to the Holy See, installed in a palace in the bottom of the hill from the seventeenth century.

TRASTEVEREThe neighborhood of Trastevere is one of the most popular of the city,

where tourists can find the most genuinely Roman environment, to spend a pleasant evening in one of the many trattorias típicas. Ha always been a poor and marginal neighborhood. Retains much of its medieval layout with narrow streets typically Roman, which today are its main attraction.

PIAZZA NAVONAPiazza Navona is the quintessential Baroque square in Rome. It is

located in the heart of the medieval city, surrounded by narrow alleys. Its characteristic elongated shape is due to the great stadium of Domitian, built in the late first century, on the ruins of which arose in the Middle Ages existing buildings.






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VATICAN CITY

The Vatican itself has an area of 0,439 km² and a population of about 900 inhabitants, 2 so it is a hybrid of city elevated to the status of an independent state, and is the smallest country in the world and the only one with by official language Latin.

ST. PETER´S BASILICAThe Basilica of St. Peter´s Basilica stands on the Apostle´s tomb,

located in a century necropolis I. The first Vatican basilica was built by Constantine in the fourth century, and was standing for more than 1000 years, until the Renaissance popes demolished to build a new basilica over the tomb of St. Peter. Maderno´s facade, the dome of Michelangelo, Bernini and Plaza are unique in the world.

THE SISTINE CHAPELThe Sistine Chapel is one of the greatest treasures of the Vatican, Rome and

the world in general. It is know as much for its decor as being the temple where crown is chosen and the Papas. Construction of the building took place between 1473 and 1481 during the reign of Pope Sixtus IV, who owes its current name. Some of the most important artists who worked on it are Botticelli, Perugino, Luca and Michelangelo.

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